Podium
The operating layer for a systematic equity fund. Deterministic strategies, governed research-to-production, and a gate-first daily cockpit.
The barrier to running a fund is infrastructure, not intelligence
Millennium, Citadel, and Point72 spend hundreds of millions on execution infrastructure, portfolio accounting, data pipelines, and risk systems. That machinery is what turns a trading thesis into a managed investment operation. Podium gives every portfolio manager the same operating layer — no institutional wrapper required.
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The operating layer, on day one
None of this requires a single line of infrastructure code from the PM. It is operational from the first login.
Deterministic Strategy SDK
Author a Python Strategy class. Podium executes it in an isolated Azure Dynamic Sessions sandbox — the same code in backtest and in live paper trading.
Formulaic alpha library
36 cross-sectional, time-series, and statistics operators — rank, correlation, decay_linear, zscore — drawn from the formulaic-alpha literature, callable from your signal.
Backtesting engine
Delay-1 fills, mark-to-market accounting, slippage modeling, and a full decision log. Prove the edge before a single paper order is placed.
Risk guardrails
Drawdown limits, position-sizing constraints, concentration caps, and kill switches the platform enforces and a strategy cannot override.
Daily paper trading
Deployed strategies run on a governed strategy-ticks cadence — target weights after the close, fills at the next open — identical to the backtest mechanics.
Market data + security master
Daily OHLCV and company fundamentals on a maintained symbol master, with corporate-action and split adjustment handled for you.
Skill bundles
Ship reusable scripts and references alongside a strategy, invoked deterministically from your signal logic and sandboxed by AST validation.
Governance & evidence
Every strategy version is hashed and version-locked; every signal, skill call, and decision is recorded. A deterministic strategy you can audit end to end.
Bring the edge
Author a strategy, backtest it, and deploy to paper trading — on the same governed execution path the platform uses in production.